Nicola Nocentini

Nicola Nocentini holds a dual role as a Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, and a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa (2020-2023). His professional focus centers on civil protection systems, natural disaster prediction, emergency management, and non-structural risk mitigation strategies including public risk communication. He also serves as a volunteer forest fire fighting operator with the VAB association in Castiglion Fiorentino.

His academic credentials include:

• B.Sc. in Geological Sciences from the University of Florence (2018), thesis: "Application of a model for the operative forecasting of landslides in the province of Florence"
• M.Sc. in Geological Sciences and Technologies from the University of Florence (2020), thesis: "Multi-criterial parameterization of soil geotechnical properties in the territory of the Metropolitan City of Florence for distributed and physically based modeling of the triggering of shallow landslides"
• Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa (2020-2023), thesis: "Analysis of the influence of rainfall and vegetation in the spatial and temporal forecast of landslides through machine learning approach"

Nocentini's research integrates machine learning with geospatial analysis to improve landslide forecasting systems, examining critical interactions between rainfall patterns, vegetation cover, and soil mechanics. His expertise spans geotechnical modeling, hydrogeological risk assessment, and GIS-based disaster prediction frameworks, with emphasis on operational civil protection applications.

As a doctoral researcher, Nocentini operates under primary supervision of Professor Riccardo Fanti and Dr. Samuele Segoni at the University of Pisa. His work receives institutional support through the Earth Sciences Department's research infrastructure and computational resources dedicated to natural hazard modeling.